NEW YORK: A UN expert who published her work saying there were solid grounds to believe Israel has carried out genocide in its war on the Gaza Strip says she has received threats.
Francesca Albanese, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories has presented a report entitled “Anatomy of a Genocide” to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday.
In the report, she said there are clear signs that Israel had violated three of the five acts listed under the UN Genocide Convention in its war on the Gaza Strip.
UN Expert Faces Threats After Gaza Genocide Report
Albanese said that she received threats but it didn’t change either her commitment or the results of her work. However, she did not explain about the nature of the threats. Similarly, she did not tell that who had threaten her.
Israel has criticized her work saying Albanese but she rejected the criticism. She said one of her key conclusions was that Israel’s military and executive leadership and troops have intentionally subverted their safety functions in an attempt to legitimize genocidal violence against the people of Palestine.
Albanese called for the “ongoing Nakba” to stop, referring to the ethnic cleansing of the people of Palestine in 1948.
Albanese, an Italian academic and lawyer, is one of several of independent human rights experts mandated by the UN to report on specific crises and themes.
Earlier, the Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al-Nashif, presented a report detailing the escalation of Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, denouncing the policies that facilitate the increase in violence against Palestinian people by Israeli settlers.
After more than five months of war in the Gaza Strip, the UNSC, for the first time on Monday approved a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
